Security System Analyst
| Location: San Antonio, TX |
Duration: Full Time
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| Job ID: 596 |
Category: Information Technology/Security |
| Travel: None |
Clearance Level: Secret |
| Out of Area Candidates Considered: Yes |
| Job Description |
Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Secret clearance is required and must be clearable to the TS/SCI level.
Candidate will be doing the job of a Real Time analyst. 24/7 real time monitoring of AF network, doing initial identification of potential intrusions to pass to incident response for further development. Additional responsibilities may include:
• Perform log analysis.
• Perform packet analysis and be able to identify malformed packets.
• Be able to analyze the payload of the packet.
• Define the relationship between seemingly unrelated events.
• Use search engines and ArcSight knowledge base and reference pages.
• Perform advanced queries of NSD historical and reference databases.
• Make recommendations for rule and filter modifications and creation in IDS and ArcSight.
• Be able to take required elements of a report and create a properly formatted report.
• Understand differences between various operating systems – which OS an event came from and which OS is vulnerable to a certain attack.
Requirements:
• Ideally, candidates should possess a Masters degree and 5 years of experience; or a Bachelors degree and 8 years of work experience; or 15 years total working experience. At least 2 years for their working experience must be in a technical field. NOTE THAT THIS IS NOT A FIXED REQUIREMENT - ONLY A TARGET.
• Ideally, should have minimum of 5 years of IDS/IPS experience. Must have minimum of 2 years experience - preferably with computer and network security, intrusion detection and network monitoring, or combined training within the last 3 years of intrusion detection, intrusion prevention and network monitoring and Internet, and Domain name addressing; fundamental components of networks; and TCP/IP, FTP, and HTTP protocols.
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| Required Skills |
• Must know the most commonly used ports and research lesser-known ports (ports that NSD normally sees).
• Know the type of traffic that should be seen into and out of the most commonly used ports.
• Understanding of network protocols.
• Understanding routing.
• Understand limitations of AF security policies.
• Make recommendations for TCNO & NOTAM that should be generated.
• Understanding of computer security and its limitations.
• Understand advanced hacking techniques.
• Understanding of commonly used AF network services – DNS, mail, web, etc. and be conversant in less common network services. |
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